- Title:
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Weightless (MP3)
- Written by:
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Sarah Bannan
- Read by:
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Andi Arndt
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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8 hours 4 minutes
- MP3 size:
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334 MB
- Published:
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January 01 2016
- Available Date:
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January 01 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489017390
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
'A chillingly forensic account of school-girl bullying. It reminds me very much in style of The Virgin Suicides, and like that book is written in the first person plural which is no mean feat.'
The Independent
Prep meets The Virgin Suicides in a haunting coming-of-age story for the digital generation and an examination of the hypocrisy of small town life, where no one quite knows where rumour ends and truth begins.
Adamsville wasn't a place that people came to. It was a place you were from, where you were born, where you were raised, where you stayed.
Before Carolyn Lessing arrived, nothing much had ever happened in Adamsville, Alabama. Each week, at dinner tables and in the high school assembly, everyone would pray for the football team to win. Each year, the Adams High hotlist would be updated, and girls would rise and fall within its ranks. Each day, everyone lived by the unwritten rules that cheerleaders did not hang out with the swim team, seniors did not date freshmen and the blistering heat was something that should never be remarked upon. But then the new girl came.
All Carolyn's social media could reveal was that she had moved from New Jersey, she had 1075 friends – and she didn't have a relationship status. In beach photos with boys who looked like Abercrombie models she seemed beautiful, but in real life she was so much more. She was perfect.
This was all before the camera crews arrived, before it became impossible to see where rumour ended and truth began, and before the Annual Adamsville Balloon Festival, when someone swore they saw the captain of the football team with his arm around Carolyn, and cracks began to appear in the dry earth.
'It works brilliantly. It's a compulsive, clever read, and leaves you thinking through the issues of bullying with new eyes.'
Irish Examiner
'High school bullying has never been dealt with in as frightening a way, or one which examines quite as clearly the moral guilt of those who just stand by and watch.'
The Scotsman